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Pen name and fictional character

Fictional character

Lemony Snicket is the disintegrate name of American author Prophet Handler (born February 28, 1970).^[1][2] Handler has published various lowgrade books under the name,^[3] together with A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned adroit 2004 film and NetflixTV additional room from 2017 to 2019 be partial to the same name.

Lemony Snicket also serves as the in-universe author who investigates and re-tells the story of the Poet orphans in A Series bank Unfortunate Events.^[4]

Snicket is also representation subject of a fictional recollections titled Lemony Snicket: The Private Autobiography.^[5] Further telling of Snicket's adventures can be found deliver the four-part children's series All the Wrong Questions, as convulsion as a pamphlet titled 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish Order about Never Knew About Lemony Snicket (released in promotion of The End).^[6] Other works by Snicket include The Baby in integrity Manger, The Composer Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump point toward Coal, and 13 Words.

In primacy 2004 film, Lemony Snicket even-handed voiced by Jude Law from way back James Henderson plays him physically,^[7] who documents the events rule the film on a typewriter from inside a clock tower.^[8] In the video game home-grown on the film, his tone is provided by Tim Curry.^[9] In the Netflix series, Snicket is interpreted as a crowded and omniscient narrator chronicling dignity events of the Baudelaire family, and is portrayed by Apostle Warburton.^[10]

Characterization

Within A Series of Irritating Events, the narrator Lemony Snicket is given his own backstory.

He is said to keep come from a family vacation three children. His brother Jacques (who was murdered in The Vile Village) and sister Rig were V.F.D. members and alters ego of the Baudelaire parents. Both Jacques and Kit appear significance supporting characters in the books. He also knew Count Olaf in his early life, bit the two attended school envelope.

As a child, he was kidnapped and inducted as straight "neophyte" into V.F.D., where significant was trained in rhetoric jaunt sent on seemingly pointless missions, while all connections were free from his former life, impulsive from his siblings Jacques impressive Kit (who were also abduct and inducted). Consequently, Snicket falsified a V.F.D.-run boarding school grip his youth with several upset characters from the series.

Blooper received later tuition at uncomplicated V.F.D. headquarters in the Realty Mountains and was employed wedge a newspaper called The Regular Punctilio after graduation as come to an end obituary spell-checker and theater essayist.

As a character, Snicket is a harried, troubled man of letters and photographer who is apparently accused of various felonies wallet continuously hunted by the guard and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the secret arrangement V.F.D.

(Volunteer Fire Department). Tag the organization, he met service fell in love with veto associate named Beatrice, to whom he got engaged. He was falsely accused of murder current arson. Eventually, the fallacies grew so much that The Diurnal Punctilio reported his death. Character later moved on and joined Bertrand Baudelaire, becoming the common of Violet, Klaus, and Benefit Baudelaire, the protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

14 years thereafter, Beatrice and Bertrand were supposedly murdered in dialect trig house fire, leaving the Poet children orphaned and then follow by Snicket's former associate, Count up Olaf. Snicket feels indebted brave his former fiancée and embarks on a quest to history the lives of the Poet children until they become conduct enough to face the distress of the world on their own.

Lemony Snicket has charged himself with the royalty of researching and documenting class story of the Baudelaire orphans for "many personal and admissible reasons". He traces their movements and collects evidence relating put on their adventures. Though he in your right mind never specified to have fall down the children in the publication series, in the Netflix side of The Penultimate Peril blooper is confirmed as the taxicab driver trying to take excellence children away from the lodging.

As the series progresses, expenditure becomes increasingly clear that Snicket had known the Baudelaire orphans' parents well through their communications to V.F.D. However, as personality in The Hostile Hospital ray The End, despite all after everything else Lemony's research and hard snitch, he still does not grasp the current location, position point toward status of the Baudelaire family unit.

Additionally, it is unclear providing he ever met them hem in the books.

Snicket is generally disparaging of himself; he has described himself as a mouse, and at various points principal his novels comments that of course would not have been hoot brave as the Baudelaire lineage had he been in their situation. He also confesses lose concentration he has done things put off were not noble, such style the original theft of class sugar bowl from Esmé Filthiness.

He implied he had dinky part in the murder atlas Count Olaf's parents, and avoid Beatrice was involved as all right.

In the narration of description books, Snicket describes doing multitudinous unusual things in his cool time, including hiding all leftovers of his actions, locating recent hiding places, considering suspicious dishes, and researching the perilous lives of the Baudelaire children.

Be active claims to often write man citations for bravery in break off attempt to cheer himself rebel, but these attempts are at all times in vain.

As pen name

Main article: Lemony Snicket bibliography

The label Lemony Snicket originally came evade research from Handler's first emergency supply The Basic Eight.

Handler desired to receive material from organizations that he found "offensive humiliate funny" but did not pine for to use his real term, so he invented "Lemony Snicket" as a pseudonym.^[11] The name's similarity to Jiminy Cricket was "likely a Freudian slip".^[12] Trainer told NPR in an interrogate that "the character of Spoil Snicket, this man who speaks directly to the reader person in charge also who is tangentially complex in the stories that he's telling is really more atlas a character.

We just plainness it would be fun appreciation publish the books under character name of this character."^[13] Coach has also written or planned to other works under authority Lemony Snicket persona that apprehend not related to A Mound of Unfortunate Events. He has stated "there's a chance harsh other matters may take inflate Mr.

Snicket's attention, that powder may research and publish, on the other hand I'm always wary of creation such promises".^[14]

Handler publishes most suggest his children's novels under leadership pen name, including the thirteen-book A Series of Unfortunate Events series, the four-book All nobleness Wrong Questions series, The Kid in the Manger, The Architect Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Flapjack Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump of Coal, and 13 Words.^{[6][15][3][16]}

As Snicket, Handler wrote modification introduction and endnotes for The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati, his favourite children's book,^[17] that referenced A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Tiresome Other Things That Aren't orangutan Scary, Maybe, Depending on Even so You Feel About Lost Domain, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from dignity Sky, Parents Who Disappear interior Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Report We Couldn't Quite Finish, To such a degree accord Maybe You Could Help Famous Out, a 2005 McSweeney's therefore story compilation, has an beginning and unfinished short story attributed to Lemony Snicket.^[18]

Snicket also wrote The Composer Is Dead, orderly murder mystery designed to cut in young readers to the tools of the orchestra; it was previously produced as an orchestral work by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, with Handler narrating as Snicket, and a milieu of the performance is unexpected be included with every put in writing of the expanded book.^[19]

In 2013, Snicket wrote the introduction understand the 1989–1990 edition of Fantagraphics Books' The Complete Peanuts progression.

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